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A 70-year-old school proprietor, Mr Isaac Iniasek, has been arrested by policemen attached to Igbogbo Police Division in Ikorodu area of Lagos State for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old pupil in his school. It was gathered that after the school hour on that fateful day, Iniasek asked the girl (name withheld) to go into his office and tidy it up.
It was in the process of doing that the suspect pounced on the girl, tore her pants and defiled her.
The incident happened at number 31, Eturenren Street, on the premises of the Brighter Glory School.
The victim’s aunt, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said when the girl’s friend and her younger sister waited outside for a while, they went inside the proprietor’s office to check what was happening. According to her, they met Iniasek on top of the girl.
She said: “Immediately they entered the office, the proprietor ran out of his office, while the girl was bleeding profusely from her private part.
“They raised the alarm which attracted others. When we got to the school, the girl was still in a pool of blood. “We took her to a private hospital where it was confirmed that she was defiled. They showed us the semen which was brought out from her private part.”
A resident of the area, who also has a child in the school, claimed that was not the first time the proprietor had done that. She said: “A similar incident had happened in the school.
The owner of the school was said to have inserted his finger into the private part of some girls.” The woman urged the Lagos State Government to do background verification on schools before given them approval. The victim’s father described the proprietor as a disgrace.
He said: “The girl was supposed to be his granddaughter. It was after the incident that I got to know that my daughter was not the only girl that had been assaulted by the man. “I want the man prosecuted to serve as lesson to others who may want to take after him.”
When our correspondent visited the school, the suspect’s son, who craved anonymity, described what happened as the handiwork of the devil.
He said: “What befell my father was a strange influence. My father is married, what would he derive from sleeping with the little girl?”
When contacted on the phone, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed Iniasek’s arrest. He said the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos, for further investigation.

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asumo12:
Ogun will retaliate sha!

asumo12:
Ogun will retaliate sha!

Omoriotiomwan’s pregnant wife wishing her
husband a good catch as she bid him goodbye,
unknown to her that she was bidding him the
final farewell.

I knew that if I assisted them, they would
give me food. They gave me food. My sister went
to report to my mummy. “We went for evening
prayer.
After the prayer, my mummy called me and
started cutting my hands with a blade.

The All Progressive Congress (APC) Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Timi Frank has called for the resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun for the way he handled the National Assembly leadership issue.
He said: “It was unfortunate that the leadership of the party played hide and seek and over indulged themselves in the choice of Senate President and House Speaker.”
Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara had emerged Senate President and House Speaker respectively, against the wishes of the APC. Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila were favored by the party after the initial holding of a mock election won by the duo, to occupy the seats.
In his reaction Monday, Comrade Frank, who deputizes for the National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Muhammed in the party, stated that the chairman and other NWC members of the party ought to resign having embarked on an embarrassing mock election that never had the blessings of the entire party’s leadership, more so that the leadership exhibited gross incompetence to manage the NASS issue until it blew out of hand.
This he said was because of the vested interest manifested by the chairman and few of his colleagues in the party.
“If my party could not keep to the promise of change, then we must correct them to keep to that. I have no fear or favour than to say that the current leadership of the party has practically failed. With this incident alone, the chairman should resign from his position after taking a position against the people and the people’s position has finally come to stay. In the Western world, by today the party’s national chairman would have resigned honourably. Not just the national chairman but the entire leadership that took this decision of conducting mock election against the outcry of the larger members of the party. Against the bigger picture of Nigerians. A hand-full of‎ the party leadership came to take a decision, and by today the people have shown that the voice of the people is the voice of God,” Timi Frank stated.

He specifically blamed APC Chairman, Odigie Oyegun for clearly failing to consult widely before embarking on the mock election which he said ridiculed the party. He submitted that the chairman’s action suggested that he acted under undue pressure to conduct the mock elections as admitted by him and was therefore of the opinion that if the ‎APC was to rid itself of the mistakes of the PDP, it needed a chairman that would insulate himself from undue pressures no matter where such pressure emanated from.
“You ‎could see the way the party including the national chairman was speaking‎ before the NASS leadership elections; it showed clearly that the chairman had totally taken sides which wasn’t meant to be. I understand, he took some of those decisions based on pressure. In this century, APC as a party, does not need a chairman that will be under pressure.
“‎And the party’s national chairman caused it because times out of numbers some of leaders told him to come up with a zoning formula from the beginning. He was as‎ked to take a decision and let people follow that but he didn’t do that. They were playing hide and seek with the issue until the last minute when they saw the danger and they wanted to play hanky-panky, which led us to lose one position at the Senate,” Comrade Frank said.
On remarks attributed to the APC’s national publicity secretary that Buhari is a product of the party and not the party’s leader, Timi Frank who frowned at the statement, called on Lai Mohammed to desist from such comments as it was capable of putting the party in bad light.
He said, “Let’s go back and ask Lai Mohammed who the leader of the party is. If he does not recognise the President as the leader. In my own view, If Lai Mohammed that is my direct boss could come up to tell Nigerians that the President is only a product of the party and not the national leader of the party, then he should have been able to tell us who the leader of the party is.
“We have seen that even in then PDP, former President Goodluck Jonathan was the leader of the party. If in our own case the President cannot be the leader of the party, he should tell us who the leader is then”.
He described what transpired at the national Assembly as good for democracy, noting that Nigeria stand to be the overall beneficiary.

seyiogunjuyigbe:
please read before commenting. those 5 mentioned are part of those missing that cld be identified, not the culprits.

Maghan37:
Probe in what sense? The policemen have gone beyond deir jurisdiction of arresting pple which must have led 2 dem having 2 use life ammunitions. Rather they shld free dis men & investicate 4rm d 2 parties involved & measures shld b taking 2 ensure bail is actually free.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident was the third time in four months that hoodlums would kill a resident of the street.

In March, a truck loader, identified as Gbenga, was shot dead by some suspected cult members for reportedly supporting a political party.

Some hoodlums on Friday killed a 30-year-old university graduate, Sodiq Shittu, at the Lawani Street in the Mushin area of Lagos State.

Eyewitnesses told PUNCH Metro that the victim’s skull was broken open with a hammer before one of the gang members carried a big stone and crushed his head.

It was learnt that Shittu, whose wife was five months pregnant, graduated from a university in Ogun State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident was the third time in four months that hoodlums would kill a resident of the street.

In March, a truck loader, identified as Gbenga, was shot dead by some suspected cult members for reportedly supporting a political party.

On May 19, our correspondent reported that a tricycle driver, Debo Oturu, who was on a visit to his mother, was attacked and shot dead.

Our correspondent was told that the latest incident happened around 4pm on Friday.

When our correspondent visited the street on Saturday, three gun-wielding policemen were seen patrolling the deserted street.

When PUNCH Metro visited the family house of the victim, his relatives shunned our correspondent.

They also did not allow him into the apartment, saying reports on the spate of killings in the area had made no difference.

While at the door, a woman said, “It is barely 24 hours that he was killed and you are here; for what? We are in no mood to talk, please go.”

Another lady wondered what the family would gain from the publication.

She said, “In March, somebody was killed on the street. Less than three weeks ago, they also murdered another person. And now, they have killed him. What did the government do? Or are they waiting for them to kill all the people in the area before they act?”

PUNCH Metro, however, gathered that Shittu was the first of three children and his mother had died two years earlier.

A source said, “He also has a wife, who is five months pregnant.”

Many of the houses on Lawani Street were shut, while commercial activities were grounded, with few residents peeping from their homes.

A resident, who declined identification, told PUNCH Metro that Shittu had bought a sachet of pure water from a vendor and had gone out in company with two of his friends, Ibrahim and Owusu, when he was attacked.

She said, “Sodiq (Shittu) was a gentle young man; he did not make trouble with people. Around 4pm, he went out of the street with two of his friends when they were attacked.

“Actually, there were two guys, who were monitoring their movement. Immediately they came out, the two spies signalled to their colleagues, who were in a commercial vehicle.

“They were many and they waylaid the three boys on the road. Ibrahim ran and escaped. Owusu was stabbed, but he managed to run inside the street. They, however, got Sodiq and pinned him down.

“One of them brought out a hammer and broke his skull open. They also gouged out his eyes. Then, one of them brought a big stone and dropped it on his head.”

Our correspondent gathered that the hoodlums attempted to set Shittu’s remains on fire, but his friends and neighbours chased them away.

Policemen from the Alakara Division were said to have taken the corpse and deposited it in a mortuary in the Morocco, Somolu area of the state.

Our correspondent saw blood marks on the spot his corpse was laid after he was killed.

Investigations by PUNCH Metro showed that the hoodlums came from Ereko Street, where a gang leader, identified as Toba, had his domain.

They were said to be embroiled in a supremacy clash with residents of Lawani Street over collection of some fees from traders on the street.

The Lawani residents were said to have resisted Toba’s attempts to dominate their area by taking fees from the traders.

Toba, who is facing murder charges together with another notorious warlord, Muda Adigun, was reportedly released on bail by the state high court.

Some residents, who were approached by our correspondent, declined to speak with our correspondent for safety reasons. They said the police and the government had been compromised.

A woman said, “All the kids here know the sounds of gunshots. Our old women are getting hypertensive and nobody seems to care.”

Another resident said, “Fashola (a former Governor of Lagos State) was here and nothing happened. These people have been invited to Alausa (the state secretariat) for peace to reign, yet nothing happened. For more than seven years, this place has been under siege and we are helpless. You better run if you value your life. They can start again any moment from now and we will not harbour you.”

Attempts by our correspondent on Sunday to reach out to Toba and his alleged gang members failed, as their lines were unreachable.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Kenneth Nwosu, when contacted, said he would get back to our correspondent. He had yet to do so.

“The names of the five we can identify are
Oladele Ponle, Chief Asanlu Salawu, Karimu Aremu, Rasaki Illa and Tunde Abolaji.”

bushdoc9919:
Sad story

Takeaways

1.The biological mother ran away when her child ''did not walk on time''. Now something smells fishy about that reason. (Many kids take time to learn to walk....some don't walk after one year). This calls for we health care professionals to educate mothers about their children....as well as more help for disabled kids.

Still....I think Mummy ran away for other reasons.

2.Social work in Nigeria is awful.Why wasn't this child removed earlier from the home.

3.The boy was mistreated by his aunt....which tells me that either she 1) Views him as an extra mouth 2) Views him as a ''spiritual impediment''.
For some strange reason in this country.....kids who are sent to live with their aunts and uncles get mistreated.(Not all of them....thankfully).

The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, on Saturday implored politicians who may be picked to work with President Muhammadu Buhari and all his political associates to be careful the way they carry themselves.

She said such people should be wary of the fact that it took her husband 12 years before getting to the position he currently occupies and hence, they should tread with caution.

Mrs. Buhari said this during an “Appreciation Dinner” she hosted in honour of the All Progressives Congress’ women and youths at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

She said, “There was nothing that people did not say about the past administration. It is not former President Goodluck Jonathan that is not good but the people around him.

“So, the people that are going to be around President Buhari have to be very careful because this election ended peacefully.

“We are praying and hoping that people around him should know that it took him 12 years to get to that position and they must know that they are coming to serve the masses, not General Buhari.

“It is the people that are around him that will determine the political health of our state.”

The President’s wife also promised that the current administration would run an open government.

She said government under her husband would be run differently from what was obtainable under Jonathan when people were allegedly asked to be paying huge amount of money in foreign currency before they could see the President or his wife.

“I will like to inform you that in the past regime, whether it is true or false, only God knows, some people were going round and parading themselves as personal assistants.

“If you wanted to see the President’s wife, you will pay $30,000 or $50,000 and if you are seeing the President, you will pay all that you have saved in your lifetime.

“This will not happen in our regime. Whoever asks you to give a single penny in the name of coming to see the President or his wife is not our (member of) staff. He is not an APC member, it is a lie. Don’t be deceived,” she said.

Taking a look at her husband’s 12-year journey towards returning as President, Mrs. Buhari said her active participation in the last electioneering made the difference.

She said she did not take part in the campaigns of her husband’s first three shots at the Presidency because that was how those who surrounded him at that time wanted it.

This time, she said it was a national leader of the APC and a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who encouraged her to play an active role.

She also faulted claims that made the rounds ahead of the elections on the alleged gender-insensitivity of her husband, saying they were mere fabrications.

Describing Buhari as the pillar of her success despite the generation gap between the two of them, she said it was the President who encouraged her to go to school.

Mrs. Buhari said, “Many people did not know why I was not appearing for the last three campaigns. I appeared only this time and I think it made a lot of difference. A lot of people said my husband earned four million votes as a result of my campaign.

“We were not sure but with the popularity of my husband, we thought then that he needed female support to cancel all sorts of gender bias people have been attaching to him like that he kept me under a purdah.”

“He had never kept me under a purdah even for a moment since I got married to him…

“My husband is a gender-sensitive human being, having so many girls as his own biological children and then having me as a wife, then you can see the generation gap. He allowed me to go to school. To cut the story short, he is the pillar of my success.”

She thanked Nigerian women and youths for the roles they played towards the success of the last election, saying she was aware of their steadfastness during the electioneering up until the elections proper.

These efforts, she said, contributed significantly to her husband’s success story.

Mrs. Buhari regretted that the number of women that made it to the National Assembly during the current dispensation declined drastically from the number obtainable during the last regime.

She said the current figure was not fair to women and they felt they are not represented.

Mrs. Buhari said something drastic had to be done to address the high rate of divorce in the North, the harrowing experience of widows in the South and the harassment of female students in the nation’s higher institutions.

Earlier, a former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, who was the chairman of the event, had thanked Mrs. Buhari and other women for making his job as the Director-General of the Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organisation easier.

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Mr. Fadipe said that the fire broke after the father of the children had gone to check his wife, the
mother of the children, in the hospital, where she
had just given birth to their fourth child.

dre11:
Yes man

At least Tinubu added value to governance and the people than that prisoner who only know his pockets just like what he did to job seekers during the SURE-P/FERMA task force recruitment where he and his cronies defrauded job seekers

quiet006storm:
Here's something to make you laugh this weekend.
http://bolanlesnuptialtales..com/2015/06/caption-this.html

There is crisis within Lagos PDP as the party
now has two chairmen. Don’t you think the 14
people who won elections on the party’s platform
could defect due to this crisis?

There is no division in the party. It is just some
minions misbehaving. There are laws in the party.
The state chairman is a member of the National
Executive Committee of the party. I didn’t state
it: It is part of the party’s constitution that no
member of the NEC can be removed by any lower
strata except by the NEC.

Tuesday elections of Dr. Bukola Saraki as Senate President and Mr. Yakubu Dogara as House of Representatives Speaker tipped in their favour on account of the intervention of top businessmen, high-profile investors, and some ex-Ministers in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, it was gathered yesterday.
The plots were hatched in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Abeokuta, Abuja and Ilishan, Ogun State by four serving governors and seven ex-governors in what a source described as a bid to “decimate APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.”
Two of the serving governors are from the South-West and one from the North-West, while two of the ex-governors are from the South-West, three from the North-West, one from the North-East and one from the South-South zone.
An influential Emir was also involved in the anti-Tinubu campaign, according to sources. The monarch had first sought Tinubu’s support for Saraki’s bid in a move he described as “politically strategic” for the future of Nigeria.
Sources said that although Saraki had aspired to lead the Senate as a “mere political game which anyone could win,” the contest attracted vested interests because of the anti-corruption agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Some oil barons, especially those indicted in the subsidy scandal, high-net worth investors, and top businessmen were said to have found it difficult to reach out to Buhari.
They decided to form a ring around the new President by hijacking the National Assembly through which they believe they could checkmate and frustrate any anti-Jonathan policies initiated by the Buhari government.

It was learnt that the affected businessmen, some of whom benefited from curious waivers, concessions and unmerited subsidy funds, had reached out to Tinubu to assist them to appeal to Buhari for soft-landing on ongoing investigations but the ex-Lagos State Governor declined to intervene.
One of those whose investment was linked with the missing $20billion oil cash personally begged Tinubu who insisted that any financial infraction must be punished.
The high-class businessmen were said to have found allies in four serving governors, seven ex-governors who allegedly have a political axe to grind with Tinubu.
With the support of a top APC leader eyeing the presidency in 2019, it was agreed by the amalgam of forces to “cut Tinubu to size” by taking over the National Assembly.
The plot of the aggrieved businessmen was buoyed by the fact that the ‘New PDP’ elements in APC felt “sidelined” in the scheme of things by not getting any of the top posts.
Three highly-placed sources gave a rare insight into the intrigues behind the election of Saraki as Senate President and Dogara as House Speaker.
A former governor said: “The coup against APC in the Senate assumed a magnitude which Saraki and Dogara did not imagine. What appeared as a mere aspiration turned into hi-wire politics and business intrigues. These aspirants did not expect that the race for Senate Presidency and House Speakership would turn into a big project that would threaten the fabric of the APC.”
A member of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the APC admitted that some serving governors and former governors in the new governing party participated actively in the plot.
The BOT member said it was shocking that those initially thought to be Tinubu’s loyalists were among the aggrieved APC governors and ex-governors.
The source added: “Little did the undiscerning observers of the power play know that some of the APC leaders, especially those who have succeeded in forming a ring around President Muhammadu Buhari, were a party to the plot. They have since been shedding crocodile tears to give an impression of their commitment to the party’s tenets.
“They did not only support Saraki and Dogara against the candidates of their party, they went as far as participating in the wooing of PDP Senators who rallied against their candidates.

”At the outset, Tinubu supported the candidacy of Senator George Akume from the same North-Central geopolitical zone with Saraki as the Senate President. Akume is a known friend of Tinubu and the president did not hide his preference for Lawan.
“However, Tinubu had to withdraw his support for George Akume when presidential preference became obvious and it was made clear that the Northeast, particularly Borno and Yobe should be rewarded having been marginalized by past governments apparently because of the states’ solid support for the opposition. It was at this point that Tinubu shifted support to Lawan.
However, it became a moral burden for Tinubu to communicate the new decision to his friend. But he eventually did and encouraged him to step down for Lawan. Akume then agreed to take the Deputy Senate President slot.
“Initially, he turned down the offer, believing it was the turn of the North-Central to be the Senate President, but later felt he had no option than to accept it. He said there was no need to rock the boat of the party or tamper with the peace of the fledgling administration.
“Curiously, but true, certain elements in APC resolved to work against the interest of, not only their leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, but also that of President Buhari. They chose three musketeers to coordinate the project which will demystify their leader. These beneficiaries of Tinubu political goodwill held clandestine meetings on different occasions on how to outsmart both their master and the president, while giving maximum support to the candidacy of Saraki.
“ Part of their strategy was to invite some of the moneybags with financial baggage, who would want to curry the president’s favour to escape investigations, dis-empower Tinubu by circulating negative stories about him and thus cause disaffection between him, Buhari and some other leaders in the APC.
“They also asked the president to live up to his words of ‘belonging to everyone and belonging to no one’ as a way of further boosting his soaring democratic credentials. They were also able to frame up Senator Lawan, who has been in the Senate since 2007, as a marked boy in the upper chamber
”At one of the meetings held on Thursday June 4, 2015, these three musketeers and APC accomplices were said to have invited the businessmen to sell the Saraki candidacy to them, with an assurance that there would be a shield for any probe against them.
“Well, these business and financial moguls with vast interests in fast moving consumer goods, the downstream sector, banking and hospitality industry had no option than to key into the plan.
“ Consequently, the three musketeers expanded their frontier, sought and got support from some members of the National Working Committee to further give ‘credibility’ to their action as well as convince the president of the need to stay away from Tinubu, who according to them, was becoming overbearing within the party.”
A PDP chieftain spoke extensively on how his party negotiated and benefited from the coup against APC.
He said: “Capitalizing on his past influence in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the dwindling fortunes of the party of late, Saraki and some members of the ‘New PDP’ caucus employed a former South-South governor who helped to perfect the strategy of winning other PDP Senators over for his candidacy in exchange for choice position compensations. Saraki also brought in a South-West state governor with a promise of soft-landing.
“Having been sold the possibility of negotiating with the pro-Saraki elements, the PDP elected senators saw it as an opportunity to get their pound of flesh from the APC. They also felt they could position themselves for juicy Senate committees. With 49 Senators, they resolved to demand for the concession of the office of the Deputy President of the Senate for PDP. They said once the slot was given to PDP, it would go to the South-East
“A former top official of the Senate was then saddled with the job of getting his colleagues together for a “retreat’ in Port Harcourt, where they did not only discuss the modalities of decimating the APC Senators but how to hijack the Senate
“The strategy included inviting some of those involved in the fuel subsidy fraud to back them financially with a promise to ensure that President Buhari would not be able to pursue their matter. The financiers were assured that no such probe would see the light of day because some forces around the president were also with them in the game.”
The Port Harcourt meeting resolved that in order to ward off any suspicion, they would continue to discuss with Tinubu and other APC NWC members, selling them a dummy that PDP Senators would support the APC candidates for both Senate and House of Reps in order to ensure a peaceful reign in both houses.
The mafia fell for the proposition and supported the execution of the Saraki-for-Senate-President project. The expensive presidential suite on the 10th floor of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja was the coordination base.
“And in order to make it appear that their party was carried along in the scheming, the PDP Senators briefed a former Chairman, Board of Trustees of PDP and enlisted his and the entire party’s support for them to go along with the Saraki team.
“The ex-BOT chairman, however, advised PDP senators to meet the Sunday night before the election to put the matter to vote in order not to betray one another. Of course the idea received a unanimous voting both as a result of anti-Tinubu agenda and the joy of watching the ego of the APC deflated on Tuesday.
“When Tinubu learnt of the Port Harcourt meeting and all that transpired, he met with the former official of the Senate who dismissed the plot as a mere rumour and that APC should take the promise of the PDP Senators to the bank. Well, they did and the rest is now history.”
Sources said last night that Buhari had “uncovered” the plot and was weighing his options.
A presidency source added: “This discovery made one of the spokesmen of the President to come out strongly against the ‘coup’. The spokesman was able to give the mindset of the President about what transpired. What happened embarrassed Buhari and he has been trying to intervene to broker peace and ensure reconciliation.”
The source further said that the President is determined to implement his reform agenda, bring to book all those who soiled their hands in the last dispensation.
The source added the new leadership of the National Assembly would not deter him from pursuing his goals. “Did former President Olusegun Obasanjo not live with a hostile senate under the late Chuba Okadigbo and adversarial House of Representatives under ex-Speaker Ghali Na’Abba? Why do corrupt businessmen think that they can escape justice by controlling the National Assembly?”

spencekat:
I said that you should not mind Tinubu.

A self-acclaimed pastor, Greatman Ita, and four others persons have been arrested by operatives of Edo Police Command, for the murder of a welder identified as Abu Iboje.
The other suspects arrested are Sylvester Ikhifa, Lazarus Anthony, Obiosa Noble and Okeh Godstime.
Police source has it that Abu was killed sometime in the month of April at his workshop located at Upper Sokponba road in Ikpoba-Okha local government, within Benin metropolis.
The ‘Pastor’ however denied having a hand in the killing of the late welder, adding that, he was arrested at his own shop after being identified to the police by one of the suspect.
One of the suspects, 21-year-old Lazarus Anthony, however admitted leading the others who he said were members of his cult group to kill Abu, because he had killed a member of his cult group a day before he was killed, adding that Pastor Ita was the driver of the vehicle they used to commit to the murder.
He said, “I am a cultist and belong to . Abu and his squad killed Kelvin at Upper Sokponba. The next day, I led my squad to kill Abu at his workshop. I used locally made gun. It was Edoba that asked us to do the killing, This is the first person I have killed. After killing him, I became confused and did not know what came over me.
“I am pleading for Federal Government to forgive me. I want to renounce my cult membership. We are many that are cultist in that street.”
P.M. NEWS recalls that over 40 persons were killed in a renewed cult war in the last few weeks, before the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, ordered a clampdown on cultists in the state.
Since the IGP’s order, over 200 persons including four aides of Governor Adams Oshiomhole, have been arrested and remanded in prison custody for their involvement in cult-related killings.